Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-15

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 tors or theoretic philosophers to picture an unattainable Utopia for the workingman; or tickle his ears by glittering generalities of good time coming when, without toll or trouble he can seize, appropriate and enjoy the proceeds of other mems thrift and industry. We have had too much of this sort of, thing; and the drones, turned to declaimers, have lived on the fat of the handsome heaped up plethoric bank ac- counts by their easy labor on platform and press-and some, alas, achieved limited and short-lived popularity at the risk and loss of the enduring peace which the allegiance to and observance of higher duties give. Labor is it's own advocate and it's own reward; it's own praise and it's own dignitp. But in proportion to the recog- nition of these attributes by an outside public, shuold be the care and caution exercised by Labor to keep its virtue un- impaired and it's unity intact.
 The Labor interest is one and should be indivisible. Lying at the base of all or ganizations there is, it will be conceded, an honest and earnest desire to advocate the interests of the Order of Workers; it is perhaps hard to expect that men widely apart, with different surroundings, influ- enced by varied teachings and experiences, should fall into the one groove of uni form discipline with uniform designs; that system which had Divinity for its founder cannot exhibit this sublime oneness of method, though it may boast of the one desirable end; and the division of Labor organizations is not more to be wondered at than those walls of seperation which, in the garden of religious faith, divide the churches under the Christian dispensa- tion. Out of the apparently divided Laoor Councils, it is not an impossibility that some united plan of action, compact, CO., hesive and effective, may come; as, it is to be hoped, in the matter of religious belief, that above the garden walls the fruit will intermingle equally acceptable to the Lord of the Vineyard.
 That term Federation of Labor," is a good one. It implies that out of diverse organization, with independent modes of | action and discipline, there may be fed ! eration of purpose and unity as to end. We do not see that in the inception of that great Labor Convention at Baltim ore, there | was any necessary antagonism to the Knights of Labor or to any other Labor society, chartered or unchartered. On the con- trary, we believe there was in it, if not the design, the capacity to weld all into one practical agency for protection. The way l to insure this end is conciliation at one side and forbearance at the other; not toe quick to provoke or too ready to take of l fence. The interests of all are the same 1 the protection of honest Labor against l the dishonest exactions of Capital the in
 sistance on the cooperative idea that
 while the laborer works and the taskmaste1
 gathers, the former shall have wherewitha to repay for the sweat of face and the
 waste of muscle; that while the million
 aire manufacturers may go forth, as ii
 were, clothed in purple and fine linen an6
 fare sumptuously every day, the man who
 makes the millions shall not crawl, Lazarus
 like, at the gate, begging for crumbs from
 the rich mans table; but that he shall si
 at his own humble board, surrounded by ,
 loving wife and happy children, and en
 joy in his conscious dignity the fruits O. his honest labor. This is an outline O.
 the duty and dignity of Labor, and to thu
 realization of this idea we hope to see th
 Baltimore Convention an auxiliary.